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Academy Award-winning director Barry Jenkins<\/a> was recently named as Guest Director for the 2021 Telluride Film Festival. The celebrated filmmaker is set to select a series of films to present at the 48h Telluride Film Festival running\u00a0September 2 – 6, 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year, festival organizers select one of the world’s great film enthusiasts to join them in the creation of the Festival’s program lineup. The Guest Director serves as a key collaborator in the Festival’s programming decisions, bringing new ideas and overlooked films to the fest. In keeping with Telluride Film Festival tradition, Jenkins’s film selections, along with the rest of the Telluride lineup, will be kept secret until Opening Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Each year as we think about who a good Guest Director would be, Tom and I weigh different factors,” said executive director Julie Huntsinger. “Many are based in the intellectual realm: film knowledge, appreciation and, of course, serious talent. But our recipe always includes something more ephemeral \u2013 something that has to do with the quality of the human heart. Rare is the person who exceeds on each of these criteria. Barry Jenkins checks every box and more. We feel lucky and a little incredulous that our long-time friend and very talented colleague has agreed to join us as Guest Director this year. The whole world knows of Barry’s gifts, and we’re thrilled that he is taking the time to share the films he loves in a place with the people who love him dearly.”<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Jenkins received notoriety after winning an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his second feature Moonlight<\/em>, which also won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Picture. His third feature, the adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk<\/em> went on to receive three Academy Award nominations and won Best Picture at the Independent Spirit Awards. Jenkins’ next feature film projects include a follow up to The Lion King<\/em> for Walt Disney Studios as well as a biopic of famed choreographer, Alvin Ailey, for Searchlight Pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first Telluride was the 29th festival, in 2002. In the time since, I’ve done\u00a0many\u00a0<\/em>things at the festival both high — opening the Werner Herzog Cinema as Ringmaster and, of course, the world premiere of\u00a0Moonlight —\u00a0<\/em>and low (rolling up the floor of the Max at festival’s end was a rite of passage). When I was approached about curating the Filmmakers of Tomorrow program many years ago, I was honored to be invited deeper into the inner workings of the festival I loved so dearly; being invited to curate a program as Guest Director is an honor my 2002 self would never imagine. We’ve all been tucked away in our silos longing for the day when we can safely venture out into communal spaces to once again partake in the rituals of cinema we love so dearly. I never doubted that the show would once again go on. But having a role in\u00a0what\u00a0<\/em>is shown? Yes, that is quite the honor indeed. My thanks to Tom and Julie for bestowing this wonderful gift upon me. I’ll see everyone at the SHOW.\u00a0<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

For television, Jenkins directed an episode in the first season of the Netflix Original Series Dear White People<\/em>.\u00a0His\u00a0most recent\u00a0project for television is\u00a0the critically acclaimed\u00a0adaptation of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Colson Whitehead’s, The Underground Railroad<\/a><\/em>, for Amazon. Jenkins directed all episodes as well as written a number of the screenplays.\u00a0Jenkins’ upcoming\u00a0work\u00a0includes a script based on the life of the first American Female Olympic boxing champ Clarissa “T-Rex” Shields as well as an adaptation of Netflix’s\u00a0original documentary, Virunga<\/em>, about the battle to save the Congo’s mountain gorilla population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barry Jenkins joins Telluride Festival past Guest Directors; Pico Iyer, Jonathan Lethem, Joshua Oppenheimer, Volker\u00a0Schl\u00f6ndorff, Rachel Kushner, Guy Maddin, Caetano Veloso, Michael Ondaatje, Alexander Payne, Salman Rushdie, Peter Bogdanovich, B. Ruby Rich, Phillip Lopate, Errol Morris, Bertrand Tavernier, John Boorman, John Simon, Buck Henry, Laurie Anderson, Stephen Sondheim,\u00a0G. Cabrera Infante,\u00a0Peter Sellars, Don DeLillo, J.P. Gorin, Edith Kramer and Slavoj\u00a0\u017di\u017eek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Telluride Film Festival is presented by National Film Preserve LTD. and sponsored by Turner Classic Movies (TCM). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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